Exultate is a chamber choir and orchestra founded in 1996 by Dr. Thomas D. Rossin, conductor, with Dr. Stephen Gabrielsen, accompanist. (Gabe died in April of 2013). Exultate is the Twin Cities’ only professional choir with a self-contained orchestra. The group’s normal size is about 45 singers and 22 instrumentalists. 2011_Bio_picOnce a year Exultate expands its ranks to become a larger-than-chamber “festival” choir and orchestra, performing and recording such major works for voices and instruments as A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms (sung in English), The Seven Last Words of Christ by Théodore Dubois (also in English), Mozart’s Requiem and Grand Mass in C Minor, Francis Poulenc’s Gloria, the Mass in B Minor, St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion (sung in English) and Magnificat by Johann Sebastian Bach, the Requiems of Gabriel Fauré, John Rutter and Karl Jenkins and other contemporary works such as Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna and Paul Mealor’s Stabat Mater, Crucifuxus oratorio and his Symphony No. 1 – Passiontide.
To date Exultate has produced thirty recordings – 10 are Christmas albums with unique Christmas carol arrangements, many written especially for Exultate. The other 20 recordings are choral masterworks and works for organ or piano. Please visit our recordings page to see more information on recordings available.
